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How many virtual meetings are held in your office in a given month? How about during a regular week? For many professionals working in remote and in-office jobs alike, the number may be growing. In a recent Successful Meetings survey, 33% of respondents said that they plan to hold more virtual meetings in the coming year (compared to just 2% who plan on fewer) — an increase that’s larger than any other type of work meeting in use today.

With popular services offering somewhat-reliable connections, Skype, Google Hangouts, Join.me, and many other video conferencing platforms are in high demand.

Why Hold Virtual Meetings?

With the rise of telecommuting, remote offices (like our own), and completely virtual teams, the need for reliable, online-only meetings has become hugely important. Virtual meetings are hugely popular for a number of reasons:

They can aid in the streamlining and efficiency of meetings (up to a certain amount of time, at least).

They help small businesses, remote teams and startups to save money on costs related to chat and calls.

You can share your screen with coworkers, run a presentation, or discuss with live visuals.

They allow international, or cross-country teams to see, hear and work together — much like how we get things done in our business.

They actually reduce travel time and help improve productivity in many cases, since they don’t have to leave their environment to dial in.

With every virtual meeting held through video conferencing comes a need for a thorough agenda, accurate meeting minutes, and follow-up items. While the average employee can type at a decent speed, having a single person responsible for capturing a record of each meeting can be an impossible task.

How to Record Video Calls

A newer technique being adopted by remote-operating businesses (and those using video conferencing) is to use a video recording solution in tandem with notes and minutes. Replay Telecorder is the most powerful, easy-to-use video conference recorder out there — you can record virtual meetings held on Skype, Google Hangouts, Join.me, GoToMeeting, and every other application you can think of with perfect accuracy.

With simple, one-click recording to start right away and a fast background mode to capture and multi-task, it’s a super-efficient solution to recording and saving every virtual business meeting, brainstorm, and more. Here’s how to record every virtual business meeting using Replay Telecorder:

First, open up Skype, Google Hangouts, or whichever conferencing app you use for business. Then, launch Replay Telecorder on your computer.

If you’re using Skype for your virtual meetings, Replay Telecorder will automatically detect the window for you. If you’re using a different video conferencing application, just click Mark to manually select the area of the screen that you want to record.

Click Record to start recording.

Click Stop to stop recording.

Click Play to playback the last recording.

Please Note: For best results, when recording on High Definition displays (1920×1080) or higher, keep the size of the video window to a minimum. Do not use full screen or larger size windows. Skype™ consumes a lot of CPU on HD displays when large windows are utilized.

Have any questions, or need help getting set up? We’re here for anything you might need.

Legal note: In many countries, it is illegal to record a phone call without the consent of the other party. We recommend telling all participants in a phone call that they are being recorded when using Replay Telecorder.

Facebook Live is a phenomenon sweeping the connected, live-streaming world we live in today. Everyone from celebrities to close friends, politicians to musicians, and everywhere in between can broadcast right from the camera on their smartphone.

While Facebook Live videos are real-time in nature, those watching the live streams are restricted to the access that their favorite broadcasters allow. Replay Video Capture is the only way to create high-quality recordings from Facebook Live videos, making it easy to watch live streaming moments anywhere, anytime and on any device, even after they are removed.

How to record a Facebook Live video:

Head for the Live broadcast you want to record, either via your News Feed or the broadcaster’s Facebook Page.

3. Start Recording

Replay Video Capture will automatically find the Facebook Live video window in your browser – all you have to do is hit Record!

Unlike other screen recording programs, Replay Video Capture is designed for the highest quality video output possible and has recording capabilities up to 100 frames per second. It’s the fastest, most powerful way to legally record ANY live streaming content from Facebook Live and save it in a high-quality format.

Here’s how it’s done:

Remember: if you can watch it on your computer screen online, you can capture it forever!

The 89th Academy Awards are live again this Sunday, February 26! To almost no one’s surprise, the musical-comedy La La Land has already matched a record with an impressive 14 awards, including for the coveted “Best Picture,” as well as individual nominations for Best Actress (Emma Stone) and Best Actor (Ryan Gosling).

Where to Live Stream the Oscars

For the first time ever, IMDb is hosting a live streaming viewing party, broadcast directly to their website, Twitter and Twitch. The official IMDb Live Viewing Party (Presented by OREO Chocolate Candy Bar) will be hosted by Dave Karger (IMDb Special Correspondent) and Rachel Smith (host of Amazon’s Style Code Live) and streamed live from an exclusive industry viewing party in Hollywood, California.

“This year we are taking our coverage of the Academy Awards to an entirely new level,” said Col Needham, IMDb’s founder and CEO. “In addition to our extensive online coverage, we’ll be producing our first-ever VIP industry viewing party and companion show, which will stream live across the world…”

Oscars fans can use Replay Video Capture to record the live stream as it happens, and save every award-winning movie from any online source!

Getting excited? Us, too. Watch all of the trailers for our favorite Best Picture nominees below, and see the full list of nominations here.

Streaming media like music, movies and shows online has been around for decades now, but has reached new levels of popularity with the introduction of popular (often paid) services. As cable-cutting becomes more intuitive and budget-friendly, traditional cable subscriptions are increasingly more complicated and pricey. It’s a no-brainer why entertainment enthusiasts are choosing options for streaming media online.

Because no one streaming service is created equal (and can have frequently rotating collections of content), we created the software in Replay Capture Suite to save it all. If you can stream it online, you can record and save it forever, no matter the device or internet connection. Here are our favorite streaming sites to record media online:

Netflix

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A clear winner in many streamers’ eyes, Netflix is powerhouse in the online streaming industry. With so many titles available at any given time, you can stay entertained for hours (as long as you have internet and the titles you want are still there).

HBO

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Want to learn how to record from HBO? You’re not alone. With hugely captivating shows like Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley and The Sopranos, it’s hard to pretend you don’t want to stream and save it all.

You can record HBO movies, series and any other content online with Replay Video Capture and save them all into a high quality format. Just subscribe to HBO Go if you’re a cable subscriber, or HBO Now if you’re not, and you’ll be able to access all of HBO’s media to record for offline use!

Spotify

Spotify is a force in the music streaming world. With 20 million songs from thousands of artists in every possible genre, there’s endless music to enjoy – as long as you have a WiFi connection.

Lucky for you, listeners can download music from Spotify and save every track into individual, perfectly-tagged songs using Replay Music – this makes it simple to listen to all your favorite music, anywhere. All you have to do is open the program on your computer, start the music, and click “Record” to record any music from Spotify.

Soundcloud

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Soundcloud gained its popularity in the MySpace era of the mid-2000’s with their simple platform for musicians to upload and share music. Naturally, this also attracted a lot of listeners, and today the streaming site boasts over 175 million monthly users.

Replay Music is the most powerful way to record Soundcloud music directly to high quality MP3 files. Advanced recording technology captures only the music you want to hear, and never any system sounds or background noises.

YouTube

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YouTube is home to sensation after sensation, music videos, full video series and even exclusive live streaming events. The entertainment doesn’t have to end when your WiFi fails you or your favorite channel removes some of its best content — Replay Media Catcher lets you download videos from YouTube so you can watch again and again.

With downloads that run 10 times faster than playback speed and lightning-fast conversions, Replay Media Catcher makes it easy to download from YouTube and automatically convert these videos to MP3, WMV, AVI and more. Plus, with a live stream monitor feature, you can actively track and record any YouTube live event.

Mashup videos are one of the truly brilliant, shining gems that YouTube — and the Internet as a whole — has to offer. With mashups, you can mix and match the best prank clips for the ultimate funny video, piece together music videos for a perfect playlist, create a seamless workout video or the ideal dance compilation, and really add a piece of audio to any kind of video you can imagine.

Want to make your own mashup? It’s not as difficult as you might think. With a creative brain and some helpful tools, you’ll be well on your way to creating and contributing some awesome, totally unique video content for you (and others) to enjoy and share online. Plus, you’ll have developed some seriously useful directorial and cheap filmmaking skills!

Our Favorite Mashups

For inspiration and entertainment purposes, we thought we’d share some of our personal favorites in the video mashup realm today.

A Stranger Things Christmas

Bohemian Rhapsody (Sung by 260 Movies)

Scorsese’s Sesame Street

How to Make a Mashup Video

Here’s a simple, step-by-step guide for creating your very own mashup video:

1. Find Your Content

What kind of mashup do you want to create? Once you have your idea in mind, it’s time to do some searches on YouTube for the perfect set of pre-existing video clips.

2. Download From YouTube

Online video sites are chock full of content, so you can download the videos you need to create your mashup directly from YouTube. You can use Replay Media Catcher to download from Youtube and mix ‘n match all of the best video clips to create your own.

Just play your video along with the software, and it will be downloaded back to your computer even faster than real-time – 10 times quicker than your average playback speed. Plus, with the integrated file converter, you can easily convert your newly-downloaded files to over a hundred different formats.

3. Edit & Join Video Files

Once you have your video clips downloaded back to your computer, it’s time to edit and split the files to segment out the exact pieces you want.

You can use Replay Media Splitter to extract or remove pieces of video files. With an easy-to-follow, visual display and a simple way to include and exclude specific parts of media, you’ll be able to join the pieces to create awesome video mashups in just about any file format!

Pandora is a super popular, free online service that gives you access to radio stations and collections from all of the artists you love to listen to. Unfortunately for music lovers, Pandora will never let you download music to enjoy on any device. But, with Replay Music software, you can easily save music from Pandora and listen to your favorite tracks anywhere.

Here’s how to record music from Pandora with Replay Music:

Step 1: Open

Open up Replay Music on your computer. Then, select the big “Record” button.

Step 2: Play

Launch Pandora on your browser online, and open up the album or playlist you want to download.

Step 3: Capture

Replay Music will automatically start to record from Pandora, the second your music starts to play. And, that’s it! The software even automatically tags and titles your new song files, so they’re ready to import into iTunes or any other music library you like.

Replay Music is the ultimate piece of software for any music lover and collector. Get the program to record all the music from Pandora (and other online streaming services) that your collection can handle — 100% legally!

They’re calling it “the most live Olympics ever.” Along with regularly programmed broadcasts on TV from August 5-21, NBCOlympics.comand the NBC Sports App online will be live streaming a total of 4,500 hours of coverage for authenticated subscribers.

Our best-selling media recording software makes it simple to create incredible quality videos of every single event, so you can watch on your own schedule. Plus, it’s the only program of its kind that records online video 100% legally.

The work-from-home trend continues to pick up weight among companies as they realize the major resource-saving, happy-employee-making benefits. With these remote offices and faraway teams needing to remain connected, video chatting/telecommuting via VOIP services like Skype and Google Hangouts are more important than ever.

Whether your team is together all of the time or works remotely from one another in places around the world, video communications are an increasingly popular medium for keeping in touch. According to Global Workplace Analytics, around half of the entire worldwide workforce are employed in jobs that are compatible with telecommuting. Additionally:

Regular work-at-home, among the non-self-employed population, has grown by 103% since 2005.

3.7 million employees (2.8% of the workforce) now work from home at least half the time.

The employee population as a whole grew by 1.9% from 2013 to 2014, while employees who telecommute population grew 5.6%.

Employers and colleagues can take advantage of Replay Telecorder to capture every video communication perfectly. Replay Telecorder automatically detects your Skype video chat window, and simple, one-click recording power allows you to place your call and capture immediately.

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